What's surprising is that the people who fought against torture here are the communists.

When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and the gas chambers perhaps 20 lines.

The much greater crimes of the Soviet Gulags occurred over decades and cost millions of lives.

I have said, and I repeat, at the risk of appearing sacrilegious, that the gas chambers are a detail of the history of the Second World War.

There was no reason to label us as anti-Semitic.

An ancient dictum says that when Zeus wanted to destroy someone, he would first drive him mad.

I'm not saying that the gas chambers didn't exist. I couldn't see them myself.

There must be an authority, and we believe that the most qualified authority in a household is the man's.

There wasn't anti-Semitism in France.

The suffering caused by the terrorists is the real torture.

Marine Le Pen may want me dead, that's possible, but she must not count on my co-operation

She tugged on his hair. "I'll have you know I'm no weakling." He grinned and kissed her forehead. "No, it takes a strong woman to kill a truck.

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.

If it wasn't painfully difficult, you did it wrong!

I want to remind all Africans, please come to Africa. It’s right across the water. Come look at yourselves. Momma is waiting.

I am for a close global association in trade and financial matters, rather than the opposite possibility of excessive nationalism, as manifested in the two world wars.

Our responsibility as Christians makes us tremble.

As a confirmed astronomer I'm always for a better sky.

The paradox is that by the time you get to be senior, the decisions that matter the most are the ones that would be best made made by people who are junior.